The first six months of the University of Illinois IMLS Digital Collections and Content project were spent refining project planning, hiring staff, purchasing and configuring project servers and workstations, forming a ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content project has made good progress in all areas of the project during the previous six months. As noted in prior report, a few early milestones were delayed due to longer than anticipated ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project has made progress on a number of fronts over the past six months. The response rate for the survey distributed in September to 1998-2002 National Leadership Grant (NLG) ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project has made progress on a number of fronts over the past six months. After a second distribution of the survey to National Leadership Grant (NLG) projects funded in 2003 ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project continues to make progress on its objectives. Collection-level descriptions contained in our IMLS NLG Digital Collection Registry were released to the National Leadership ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project is continuing progress on previous objectives as well as laying the foundation for the new research agenda that will be undertaken as part of the grant’s extension. ...

The IMLS DCC Project has continued progress on goals during this performance period. With the extension of the grant for 2 more years (effective 1 October 2005) we have made changes in project staff and steering committee ...

During the past six months, the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) Project has continued to make progress toward stated goals and objectives. A second survey was sent to the initial 100 projects to track the evolution ...

The IMLS Digital Collections and Content project continued to make progress during the performance period toward proposal goals and outcomes. New collections were added to both the registry and repository, data was migrated ...

In June 2001, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was awarded funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a portal to facilitate access to scholarly cultural heritage information. The project was ...

This study of metadata quality was conducted by the IMLS Digital Collections and Content (DCC) project team (http://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/) using quantitative and qualitative analysis of metadata authoring practices ...

The linked open data (LOD) offers a potential foundation for innovative user services and the wider dissemination of bibliographic metadata. This talk highlights the practical utility of the Semantic Web of library metadata ...

The Library has made ~5.5 million catalog records with associated holdings available for bulk download in multiple formats. This poster reports on the workflows developed, the serializations employed (and the mappings ...

Collection curators develop locally defined unique fields to support local requirements. As per the guidelines of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), Simple Dublin Core is the minimum ...

This paper presents early results from our empirical studies of metadata quality in large corpuses of metadata harvested under Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocols.
Along with some discussion of why and how metadata ...

This poster describes results from multi-institutional, Mellon-funded research modeling scholarly annotations in a Web and Resource centric manner using RDF. The examination of granularity, multiplicity, interoperability, ...

Mischo, William H.; Cole, Timothy W.(Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000)

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) was one of
six sites awarded a four-year federally funded grant in 1994 under the first
phase of the Digital Library Initiative (DLI). The DLI grants, jointly funded
by ...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign proposes to design, implement, and research a collection-level registry and item-level metadata repository service that will aggregate information about digital collections ...